Steam running on a Mac (video)

Last month Valve confirmed the rumors that it was developing a version of the Steam client for Mac gamers. Along with it will come Mac versions of popular games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series. Portal 2 is also promised a simultaneous release on PC and Mac.

Valve promised to get Steam for Mac out this month, and it looks as though some gamers have already managed to gain access to it through a private beta. The video above shows the service running on a Mac, and running the game World of Goo.

Valve has clearly aimed to make the Windows and Mac versions of Steam as similar as possible. This is no bad thing as the new Steam look and feel is a great improvement over the initial interface on Windows.

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Derek

As someone who owns a desktop PC (built myself, of course) but uses a Mac laptop, I can’t wait for this. Sure, I can just dual-boot the Mac when I want to take Steam on the road, but native apps are so much nicer — no more writing, web browsing, etc. on the Mac, followed by a reboot just to take a break with some Portal. :-) Now if they can just get Torchlight’s Mac version to be released at the same time, I’ll be happy as a kid in a candy factory.